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In April, CSWS and United Academics hosted "Balancing Work and Caregiving: A Best Practices Teach-in," with 43 participants. As a follow-up, UA has released a report that lays out the scope of the issues at University of Oregon and provide hands-on practical strategies to address challenges that have existed long before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Associate Professor Julie Weise, history, has received one of four 2022 Williams instructional grants. Winners of the award receive funding for projects that support learning experiences in their department.

According to Around the O, Weise will focus on an issue that’s close to her heart and connects to her work in the department of history.

A video of the April 27 “Balancing Work and Caregiving: A Best Practices Teach-In," sponsored by Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) and United Academics (UA), is now available.

Four CSWS faculty affiliates are among those selected to receive the first round of Environmental Initiative Seed Funding Program awards, established this year to support research and curricular projects at University of Oregon. Affiliate winners include:

Two CSWS faculty affiliates are among the winners of the 2021-22 Outstanding Research Awards from the Office of the Vice President of Research and Innovation. The awards recognize and celebrate achievements in research and scholarship and highlight notable research activities taking place at the University of Oregon.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society is pleased to invite the University of Oregon community to attend internal candidate talks for the position of CSWS Director. The two candidates are: Professor Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages and Literatures; and Associate Professor Sangita Gopal, English and Cinema Studies, and Interim Director of CSWS.

Both candidates will give public talks via Zoom as well as hold Open House drop-in hours at CSWS for faculty, staff, students, and community members to talk informally with the candidates. The event schedule is as follows:

On May 20, UC Berkeley sociologist Raka Ray will present the annual CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture on “The Politics of Masculinity in the Absence of Work.” The talk will be held 3:30-5 p.m. in the Ford Lecture Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Talk and reception are free and open to the public. Masks will be provided for audience members, and the outdoor reception will be held on the north patio of JSMA.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is delighted to announce funding awards for AY 2022-23 of nearly $81,000 to support scholarship, research, and creative work on women and gender. A total of 18 grants were given to 16 graduate students and three faculty members.

From Around the O—After two years as a virtual event due to the pandemic, Take Back the Night is returning as an in-person gathering on the University of Oregon campus and downtown Eugene.

Nine CSWS faculty affiliates are recipients of Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) 2022-23 faculty research and teaching fellowships.

On April 27, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) and United Academics (UA) will host “Balancing Work and Caregiving: A Best Practices Teach-In.”

Both CSWS and UA have been advocating for caregivers in the University of Oregon community since the start of the pandemic. CSWS launched the Caregiver Campaign special project, advocating for greater flexibility and support in administrative policies, while UA has developed a Caregiving article for collective bargaining this year. This teach-in is designed to complement those efforts.

From Around The O—A traveling exhibition from the National Archives, “One Half of the People: Advancing Equality for Women,” finally arrives at the Knight Library this month after being postponed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) invites applications for the Director position. This three-year renewable appointment as director will begin September 15, 2022. The director should be a tenured professor at the University of Oregon and have an active research agenda relevant to the work of CSWS. The appointee will have reduced FTE in their department while serving as CSWS director at 0.5 FTE with a stipend of $6,600 from the Office of VPRI.

Kate Kelp-Stebbins, assistant professor of English, is the 2022 Tykeson Teaching Award recipient for excellence in teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences humanities division. She is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

CSWS faculty and graduate student affiliates are invited to attend an information session on forming Research Interest Groups (RIGs) and applying for RIG Innovation and Special Project/Initiative grant funds. The meeting will be held 12-1 p.m. Friday, April 8, in the Knight Library DREAM Lab (Room 122A).

From Around the O. Editor's note: Gabriela Pérez Báez is a CSWS faculty affiliate. — UO associate professor of linguistics Gabriela Pérez Báez has helped launch the first international, open access, multilingual journal entirely dedicated to the revitalization and sustainability of Indigenous and minoritized languages.